Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Data on gay marriage

This article shows, that based on extensive European experience, there is less enthusiasm for marriage and more enthusiasm for divorce among homosexuals (especially lesbians) compared to straights.

And this article describes a new study which improves on the methods of previous research and finds that kids in same-sex families turn out worse as a adults than children raised in two-parent biological families (perhaps because their childhoods were less stable).

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The article you link itself says that the study may be better described as stability vs instability rather than gay vs straight. Hardly a definitive answer given that there's no apples to apples comparison here.

I think the article is fence-sitting. The idea that children benefit from stable rather than unstable relationships is more or less in line with the conventional wisdom, so it's understandable that the authors advance that notion, more or less as a guess.

The article does great work in debunking early pro-gay-parenting research. Not only does this correct the factual record, it also discredits the researchers who produced it. This may reduce the massive ideological bias in family- and sexuality-related research.

The difference maker is stability vs instability. It is likely not necessarily growing up in stable vs unstable homes, but the genes for living in stable homes vs unstable ones. Previous research had found no such differences between the outcomes of children growing up with same-sex parents or opposite sex ones.

Gay families are really like a combination of step-families with 100% contraception (e.g. pleasurable sex with adopted children through IVF instead of level-headed rational reproductive sex resulting in babies). Pleasure is perhaps the worst thing that can bind a family and this is even perhaps a cause why liberal heterosexuals divorce so much - they're hedonists and godless.

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